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==Waterfall Bracket== | ==Waterfall Bracket== | ||
The Waterfall Bracket (otherwise known as the WTF Bracket) is a bracket style designed to let everyone attending the tournament be able to play a lot of matches. It | The Waterfall Bracket (otherwise known as the WTF Bracket) is a bracket style designed to let everyone attending the tournament be able to play a lot of matches against players of similar skill. It was created by {{Sm|Shears}} and {{Sm|Dark Gentleman}} and became popular in 2017 and was used in a lot of majors since then. | ||
There is the option to start off with a Placement Pool where pools of 5 to 8 people play Round Robin style. The pools are designed to contain 1 elite player, a couple well respected players that aren't elite yet and the rest of the players beginner level. After that placement pool - or by seeding if there is no placement pool - the attendees are put into different rounds of round robin pools: The tournament is then separated into multiple division (for example 4 divisions, usually named by numbers 1-4) with multiple round robin pools in each division (for example 4 pools, named 1A-1D for division 1). | |||
The lowest seeded players / worst players in placement pools are put into the pools lowest division (for example division 4), the highest seeded players start in the first division (1). The matches of the lowest divisions are played first then and the best players in each pool make it into the next highest division (for example from division 4 to division 3) and the other players are out of the tournament. Then the next divisions are played one after the other and the best players of division A's pools usually play a top 8/16/24/32/64 double elimination bracket. | |||
==External Links/Example stage lists== | ==External Links/Example stage lists== | ||